NATIONAL CENTER
for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions
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Our February 2022 newsletter includes updates about National Center activities and news about collective bargaining and unionization in higher education.
The newsletter contains a list of confirmed panels and speakers and registration information for the National Center's 49th annual conference on April 11-13, 2022, which will be held virtually.
It also includes registration information for our March 2, 2022 webinar "Race, History, and Academic Freedom, A Teach-In" and another reminder about the National Center's academic collective bargaining census survey. We urge union leaders and administrators with requisite knowledge of bargaining unit size and composition, and related information, to submit a survey response for that unit.
The newsletter reports on the following recent events: the scheduling a representation election at the Harrisburg Area Community College; an unusual decision by a State of Washington union to disclaim representing an instructor's bargaining unit; dismissal of a class action lawsuit against the use of biometrics at Roosevelt University; a unit clarification decision regarding a faculty unit at Florida Gulf Coast University.
We also report on a new study by Cornell University ILR analyzing 2021 strike data for the United States along with an announcements from USC Pullias Center for Higher Education that the 2022 Delphi Award application period is now open and from the Labor Guild of Boston about their Spring courses.
Lastly, the newsletter includes a link to the recording of the December 15, 2021 panel discussion at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College concerning historian Ellen Schrecker's new book The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, along with links to recordings from our 2021 annual conference and to articles from the current volume of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy. Lastly, there is a new job posting for a position with New York State United Teachers (NYSUT).
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Register Today:
National Center's 49th Annual Conference: April 11-13, 2022
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The National Center's 49th annual labor-management conference will be taking place on April 11-13, 2022.
Due to uncertainties concerning health and safety, the 2022 annual conference will be virtual-only, rather than the original hybrid format.
The theme of the 2022 conference will be The State of Collective Bargaining and Higher Education. Links for online access to the conference will be sent out closer to the event date.
Below is a list confirmed conference panels and panelists:
Keynote Presentation with Montserrat Garibay, Senior Advisor for Labor Relations, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education in conversation with Kathleen Mulligan, Director of the National Labor Leadership initiative, Cornell University, ILR School.
Panel: The Future of Higher Education with Arthur Levine, The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future, Ann Kirschner, University Professor, City University of New York, Adrianna Kezar, Endowed Professor and Dean's Professor of Leadership, USC, Director, Pullias Center, and Director, Delphi Project, Discussant, and Daniel Greenstein, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Moderator.
Panel: Reassessing and Reexamining the History of Higher Education with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt, Cristina Viviana Groeger, The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston, Davarian Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, and Ellen Schrecker, The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, and Suzanne Kahn, Managing Director of Research and Policy, Roosevelt Institute, Moderator.
Panel: Contract Negotiations under COVID and Beyond with Margaret E. Winters, former Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Wayne State University, Ricardo Villarosa, Wayne State University AAUP-AFT, Dominick Fanelli, Associate Director Labor Relations, University of Michigan, Kirsten Herold, President, Lecturers' Employee Organization, AFT Local 6244, and Homer C. La Rue, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Moderator.
Panel: COVID and Higher Education: The Role of Unions and Arbitration Regarding Vaccine Mandates with Richard Bales, Professor of Law, Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University, Eve Weinbaum, Co-President, Massachusetts Society of Professors, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Michael Eagen, Associate Provost for Academic Personnel, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and and Sara Slinn, Associate Dean (Research and Institutional Relations) & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Moderator.
Panel: Pandemic Organizing and Bargaining Lessons in Higher Education with Larry Savage, Chair, Department of Labour Studies, Brock University and Lauren Byers, United Faculty of Florida, Unit Service Director, Organizing Specialist, Barry Miller, Senior Policy Advisor on Labour Relations, York University, Moderator (panel in formation).
Panel: Lessons Learned: Organizing and Collective Bargaining by Graduate Assistants During the Pandemic with Jacob A. Bennett, MFA, PhD, University of New Hampshire, Ben Serber, Higher Ed Organizer, North Dakota United and Past President, FSU Graduate Assistants United, Amy L. Levant, Assistant Director of Labor and Employee Relations, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Joseph van der Naald, Graduate Student Researcher, Program in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, Moderator.
Panel: Limiting the Use of Student Evaluations in Contracts: Challenges in Vision and Enforcement with Steven Newman, Temple Association of University Professionals President, Temple University, Ian Sakinofsky, Professor of HR Management, Ryerson University, Laura Murphy, Dutchess United Educators, Alexandra Matish, Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs, University of Michigan, and Timothy S. Taylor, Arbitrator, Scheinman Arbitration and Mediation Services, Moderator.
Panel: Federal Funding, Inequality, and Higher Education: Politics and Policy-Making with Adam Harris, staff writer at the Atlantic, National Fellow at New America, and author, The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal — and How to Set Them Right, Rebecca S. Natow, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, Hofstra University and author of the forthcoming Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector, and Sosanya Jones, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Howard University, Moderator.
Panel: Becoming JEDI: Labor-Management Strategy to Challenge Racism on Campus and Stem Community College Enrollment Decline with Courtney Brewer, Professor of Psychology, Executive Vice President, Faculty Association Suffolk Community College, Christina Vargas, Chief Diversity Officer and Title IX Coordinator, Suffolk County Community College, board member, ERASE Racism NY, Patty Munsch, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs, Suffolk County Community College, Jennifer Browne, Associate Dean for Curriculum Development, Suffolk County Community College, Lauren Liburd, Specialist, SCCC Foundation, Co-Chair Achieving the Dream Committee, and Cynthia Eaton, Professor of English, Secretary, Faculty Association Suffolk Community College, Moderator.
Panel: Collective Bargaining and Shared Governance: Findings from the 2021 AAUP Shared Governance Survey with Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Timothy Reese Cain, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Georgia, Hans-Joerg Tiede, Director of Research, American Association of University Professors, and Michael Loconto, Arbitrator and Mediator, Loconto ADR, Boston, MA, Moderator.
Panel: Achieving Pay Parity for Part-Time Faculty in Community Colleges with
Sandra Weese, Organizing Director, California Federation of Teachers, Ron McKinley, Vice Chancellor of Human Resources and Employee Relations, Peralta Community College District, Dyana Delfin-Polk, Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees, and Jennifer Shanoski, President, Peralta Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1603, Moderator.
Panel: An Update from NLRB and Public Sector Labor Relations Agencies on Higher Education Issues with Mark Gaston Pearce, Executive Director, Workers’ Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law School, and former National Labor Relations Board Chairman, J. Felix De La Torre, General Counsel, California Public Employment Relations Board, Ellen Maureen Strizak, General Counsel, Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, and Jennifer Abruzzo, General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board.
Panel: Faculty Unionization and Collective Bargaining in the Philippines: Similarities and Differences with Benjamin Velasco, Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Rene Luis Tadle, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas and Lead Convenor, Council of Teachers and Staff of Colleges and Universities of the Philippines, Gerardo L. Blanco Associate Professor, Higher Education, Academic Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Shannon Lederer, Director of Immigration Policy, AFL-CIO, and Ashwini Sukthankar, Secretary/Treasurer, International Commission for Labor Rights.
Panel: Higher Education Legal Update with Henry Morris, Jr., Partner, Arent Fox LLP, Monica Barrett, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC, Angela Thompson, CWA Special Counsel for Strategic Initiatives, and Aaron Nisenson, Senior Legal Counsel, AAUP, Panelist and Moderator.
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Register for Webinar on Race, History, and Academic Freedom
March 2, 6:00 p.m. EST
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On March 2, 2022, the National Center will be hosting a webinar titled Race, History, and Academic Freedom, A Teach-in. The goal of the webinar is to educate those working and studying on campuses throughout the country about the current attacks on the teaching and learning about race in American history.
The confirmed panelists are:
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Nancy Cantor
Chancellor, Rutgers University, Newark
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Emily Houh
Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law
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Risa L. Lieberwitz
Professor of Labor & Employment Law, Cornell University ILR, and AAUP General Counsel
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Paul Ortiz
Professor of History, University of Florida, and President of United Faculty, Florida Chapter
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Calvin Smiley
Professor of Sociology Hunter College
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Lázaro Lima, Moderator
Professor in the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies, Hunter College
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Academic Collective Bargaining Census Survey: Responses Needed |
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The National Center's research team continues our work in completing the electronic national census survey, which collects current information about all collective bargaining units and contracts in higher education involving faculty, administrators, postdoctoral scholars, and student workers.
The survey seeks bargaining unit size (the number of employees represented) and bargaining composition (the titles covered), along with other important information.
We thank the hundreds of unions and institutions that have already submitted survey responses. But we still have a long way to go. To reach our goal, we need your help and your cooperation. Please join the other unions and institutions from around the country by answering the survey today.
The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete by a person with knowledge about the bargaining unit. The National Center's research team will be telephoning and emailing leaders and staff of unions and institutions that have not yet submitted a response. To avoid such communications, we urge you to respond to the electronic survey.
A word version of the survey is also available. You can request one, or submit questions to our research team members, via email: ncscbint1@hunter.cuny.edu. We will be happy to answer your questions and provide you with timely assistance in completing the survey.
The data collected will be used for a new open-source directory of collective bargaining relationships and contracts. Remember that without current data, we will not be able to produce a new directory for your use.
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Harrisburg Area Community College: Representation Election Scheduled |
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Harrisburg Area Community College, PLRB Case No. PERA-R-20-306-E
An order and notice of election was issued by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) in December scheduling a mail ballot election concerning a petition filed by the Harrisburg Area Community College Education Association, PSEA/NEA, seeking to represent a faculty bargaining unit at Harrisburg Area Community College.
Mail ballots have been sent by PLRB to all eligible voters. Ballots must be returned by April 7, 2022, to PLRB’s offices. The ballots will be counted on April 8, 2022 at PLRB’s offices.
The following is the composition of the at-issue unit:
Included: All full-time and regular part-time teaching faculty including senior professors, professors, associate professors, assistant professors, department chairs, instructors, librarians, including adjunct librarians, direct instructional support adjuncts, and program and campus directors with academic rank, health science lab instructors, and adjunct faculty.
Excluded: Adjunct faculty who have not been employed for two (2) of the past six (6) terms (excluding winter sessions), and excluding non-faculty professional employes, college in the high school teachers, instructors limited only to non-credit workforce related courses, management level employes, supervisors, first-level supervisors and guards as defined in the Act.
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Central Washington Univ.: Union Disclaims Instructor Bargaining Unit |
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Central Washington University, WPERC Case No. 134794-E-22
On February 17, 2022, the Washington Public Employment Relations Board issued an order granting an unusual petition by the Public School Employees of Washington to disclaim a flight instructor bargaining unit at Central Washington University. The petition to withdraw from representing the bargaining unit was filed less than two years after the union was certified in February 2020.
The following is the composition of the bargaining unit:
All full-time and regular part-time Junior Flight Instructors employed by Central Washington University, excluding supervisors, confidential employees, and all other employees.
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Roosevelt Univ.: Class Action Lawsuit Against Biometrics Preempted |
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Walton v. Roosevelt University, Illinois Appellate Court, First District, Second Division,
Case No. 19 CH 04176
On February 22, 2022, an Illinois appellate court issued an opinion holding that a class action lawsuit brought by a former campus safety employee against Roosevelt University under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPC) was preempted by federal law.
The lawsuit alleged that Roosevelt University violated BIPC by requiring employees to scan their hands onto a biometric timekeeping device without providing the employees with the required informed consent and without developing and distributing a retention schedule and destruction guidelines.
Biometrics is one of many technologies used by employers to track employee location and to monitor time and attendance. Employer use of biometrics is generally unregulated in the United States except in states with laws like BIPC.
In response to the lawsuit, Roosevelt University sought dismissal on the grounds that the claim was preempted because the employee was covered under a collective bargaining agreement with SEIU Local 1 with a broad management rights clause, granting the university the right to direct and control employees.
In sustaining the university's argument, the appellate court reasoned that the collective bargaining agreement "makes the union the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for the employees in the union. Walton and any other similarly situated employees agreed to their
employment being covered by the subject collective bargaining agreement. The timekeeping procedures for workers are a topic for negotiation that is clearly covered by the collective bargaining agreement and requires the interpretation or administration of the agreement. The members of the collective bargaining unit in this case have surrendered their individual right to bargain with their employer about timekeeping procedures, even where those timekeeping procedures also include the collection and use of the employees’ biometric information."
In concluding that the BIPC lawsuit against Roosevelt University was preempted, the court relied upon a 2021 decision by a federal appeals court that had concluded that claims under BIPC can be subject to federal preemption. |
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Florida Gulf Coast Univ.: New Classifications Added to UFF Unit |
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Florida Gulf Coast University, FPERC Case No. UC-2021-014
On February 11, 2022, Florida Public Employees Relations Commission Hearing Officer York issued a decision recommending that a unit clarification petition by United Faculty of Florida (UFF) be granted. In its petition, UFF seeks to include the classifications of Student Success Counselor and Senior Student Success Counselor in its existing faculty bargaining unit at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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Cornell ILR Issues a New Major Study with Strike Data |
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Our friends at Cornell ILR's Labor Action Tracker have issued their annual report that presents key data and findings about work stoppages in the United States in 2021.
The report was authored by Johnnie Kallas, PhD Candidate, Cornell University ILR School
Leonardo Grageda, MILR ’22, Cornell University ILR School and Eli Friedman, Associate Professor of International & Comparative Labor, Cornell University ILR School
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2022 Delphi Awards: Application Period is Now Open |
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Labor Guild of Boston Begins Its Spring Courses |
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The Labor Guild of Boston's School of Labor-Management Relations begins its Spring courses on February 28. Five, low-cost evening classes will run online during two sessions on a staggered schedule through early May. The schedule includes: Session 1 (2/28 through 3/29): five-week courses on Digital Strategies (Mondays) and Basic Steward Training (Tuesdays). A seven-week course on Wednesday nights (through 4/13) will also cover Collective Bargaining Negotiations.
Session 2 (4/4 through 5/10; no school in the week of 4/18): The American Labor Relations System: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Mondays) and Drafting Contract Language to Avoid Grievances (Tuesdays).
The Guild has been offering classes for decades and it is committed to educating the labor-management community on good labor relations practices. Programs are taught by experienced faculty from labor, management and neutrals, and registration fees are only $50 per course (with scholarships available).
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The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s:
A Panel Discussion at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
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On December 15, 2021, the National Center and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College hosted an event celebrating the release of historian Ellen Schrecker's latest book on higher education, The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, published by the University of Chicago Press.
The recorded event included a panel discussion with Ellen Schrecker, retired Professor of History at Yeshiva University, Robert Cohen, Professor of History and Social Studies, Steinhardt School of Education, NYU, and Paul Lauter, Allen K. & Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature, Emeritus, Trinity College, Hartford. The panel was introduced and moderated by Bill Herbert, the National Center's Executive Director.
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Highlights from the National Center's 48th Annual Conference |
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The National Center's virtual May 2021 national conference was a major success. We thank the panelists and moderators who participated in the conference, as well as, all of the attendees.
Below are links to video recordings of conference presentations along with links to panel descriptions, panelists bios, and written materials.
Welcoming Remarks and Announcement with Jennifer J. Raab, Hunter College President, William A. Herbert, National Center Executive Director, DeWayne Sheaffer, President, NEA's National Council for Higher Education, Alexandra Matish, Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs, University of Michigan, Jeffrey Cross and Gary Rhoades, Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy.
The Biden Administration: Higher Education and Labor Initiatives with Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Mark Gaston Pearce, Executive Director, Workers Rights, Georgetown University Law School and former National Labor Relations Board Chairman, Damon A. Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO, and Michael Loconto, Founding Principal, Fenway Law, LLC, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios Reading Material
Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Best Practices for the Promotion of Collaboration, Equity and Measurable Outcomes with Daniel J. Julius, Visiting Fellow, Yale University, School of Management and Professor of Management, New Jersey City University, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Adrienne E. Eaton, Dean, School of Management and Labor Relations, Distinguished Professor, Labor Studies & Employment Relations Department, Rutgers University, Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and David Lewin, Professor Emeritus, Management and Organizations, UCLA Anderson School of Management. This panel was co-sponsored by the LERA Higher Education Industry Council. Panel Description and Panelist Bios
Challenges of the Past Year and Perspectives about the Future with Daniel Greenstein, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, S usan Poser, Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois Chicago, Mildred Garcia, President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and Scott Jaschik, Editor, Inside Higher Ed, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
Challenges of the Past Year and Perspectives on the Future of Academic Labor with Rebecca Givan, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Jamie Martin, President, APSCUF, Justin Tzuanos, NEA Center for Organizing Fellow, NEA Organizational Specialist and Higher Education Team member, Charles Toombs, President, California Faculty Association, and Gary Rhoades, Professor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona, JCBA Co-editor, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
COVID-19 and Its Impact on Academic Women with Karen R. Stubaus, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University, Maria Lund Dahlberg, Study Director, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Eve Higginbotham, Dean of Inclusion and Diversity, University of Pennsylvania, Leslie D. Gonzales, Associate Professor in the Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Learning Unit in the College of Education, Michigan State University and Juli Wade, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Connecticut. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
COVID-19 and Racial Equity in Higher Education with Amalia Dache, Assistant Professor, Higher Education Division, University of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Johnson, Assistant Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University, Henrika McCoy, Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois Chicago, and Roseanne Flores, Associate Professor, Psychology, Hunter College, CUNY, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States with Massimo Faggioli Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University and contributing writer to Commonweal magazine, E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post Syndicated Columnist, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and Georgetown University Professor, Heidi Schlumpf, Executive Editor, National Catholic Reporter, and Paul Moses, Professor of Journalism, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Moderator. This panel was co-sponsored by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and Commonweal Magazine.
Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Universities with Gerald J. Beyer, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Villanova University, Patricia McGuire, President, Trinity Washington University, Discussant, Mary-Antoinette Smith, Professor, English, and Executive Director, National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE), Seattle University, Lily Ryan, Organizer, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University, and Donna Haverty-Stacke, Professor, History, Hunter College, CUNY, Moderator. This panel was co-sponsored by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and Commonweal Magazine.
Speaking of Dignity: Non-Unionized Adjunct Faculty Teaching at a Catholic Church-Affiliated University with Jacob Bennett, University of New Hampshire, Maria Maisto, New Faculty Majority, James Coppess, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO, and David Marshall, Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law, Dorothy Day Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law, Panelist and Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
Social Unionism to Bargaining for the Common Good in Higher Education: Then and Now with Charles Toombs, President, California Faculty Association, Ellen Schrecker, Professor Emerita of American History, Yeshiva University, Andrew Feffer, Professor, History, Union College and author of Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism, Marilyn Sneiderman, Professor and Director, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, and Malini Cadambi-Daniel, Director for Higher Education, SEIU, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain with Dominic Wells, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Bowling Green State University, author of From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging: How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain (2020), William P. Jones, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Minnesota, President, Labor and Working-Class History Association, Eleni Schirmer, PhD candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educational Policy Studies, and William A. Herbert, National Center Executive Director, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
Contingency, On-Line Education and Faculty Strikes in the US and the UK with Mariya Ivancheva, Lecturer in Higher Education Studies at the University of Liverpool, Robert Ovetz, Lecturer, Political Science, San Jose State University, David Harvie, Associate Professor of Finance and Political Economy, University of Leicester, and Alyssa Picard, Director, AFT Higher Education, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
Higher Education Legal Update with Henry Morris Jr., Partner, Arent Fox LLP, Monica Barrett, Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, Angela Thompson, Associate Director, AFT Legal Department, and Aaron Nisenson, Senior Legal Counsel, AAUP, Panelist and Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
Academic Freedom in Collective Bargaining Agreements and Faculty Handbooks with Hans-Joerg Tiede, Director of Research, AAUP, Risa Lieberwitz, General Counsel, AAUP and Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Missy A. Matella, Watkinson Laird Rubenstein, P.C, and Jeffrey Cross, Former Associate VP, Academic Affairs, Eastern Illinois University (Emeritus), Editor, Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
Shared Governance, Collective Bargaining, and the Future of Online Learning in Light of COVID-19 with Anthony G. Picciano, Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, School of Education, Irene Mulvey, President, AAUP, Joseph McConnell, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP, and Theodore Curry, Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
The Future of Graduate Assistant Unionization with Ken Lang, Director of Organizing, UAW, Peter MacKinnon, SEIU Local 509 President and Chair, Higher Education Council, Kavitha Iyengar, Graduate Assistant Union President, UAW 2865, University of California, Shukura Umi, Executive Vice President, United Campus Workers, and Joseph van der Naald, Graduate Student Researcher, Program in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
Principles and Practices for Effective Negotiations with Kathy Sheffield, Director of Representation and Bargaining, California Faculty Association, Barry Miller, Senior Policy Advisor on Labour Relations, Office of the Provost, York University, Deborah Williams, Johnson County Community College Faculty Association, Judi Burgess, Esq., Director of Labor Relations, Boston University, and Elena Cacavas, Esq., Cacavas ADR, LLC, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
Preparing and Presenting Grievances in Arbitration with Letitia F. Silas, Executive Director of Systemwide Labor Relations, University of California , E. Kevin Young, Associate Director for System-wide Labor Relations, University of California, Tara Singer-Blumberg Labor Relations Specialist, New York State United Teachers National Center Executive Director William A. Herbert, and Homer C. La Rue, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Panelist and Moderator.
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Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, Volume 12 |
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The National Center has published the latest volume of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, on the theme Beyond Getting Back to the New/Old “Normal." We thank the Journal's co-editors Jeffrey Cross and Gary Rhoades for their tireless work.
Below are links to the articles in the current volume:
Op-Ed
Articles
The Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online periodical, the purpose of which is to advance research and scholarly thought related to academic collective bargaining and to make relevant and pragmatic peer-reviewed research readily accessible to practitioners and to scholars in the field.
We encourage scholars and practitioners in the fields of collective bargaining, labor relations, and labor history to submit articles for potential publication in future volumes.
The Journal is supported, in part, by a generous contribution from TIAA and is hosted by the institutional repository of Eastern Illinois University.
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Job Posting: NYSUT Regional Staff Director for UUP
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NYSUT Regional Staff Director (RSD) for UUP
Field Services for UUP
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Management Confidential
February 11, 2022
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United University Professions (UUP) is the bargaining agent for more than 37,000 faculty and professionals employed at the 29 state operated campuses and 4 major health science centers (Buffalo, Syracuse, Downstate-Brooklyn, and Stony Brook) of the State University of New York (SUNY). UUP is the second largest local affiliated with NYSUT. The NYSUT RSD for UUP is responsible for the supervision of the ten (10) NYSUT labor relations specialists (LRS) who are assigned to work the 33 chapters of the statewide local and supervises 2 UUP administrative employees.
The RSD is the key link between NYSUT and UUP and works closely with the leadership of the local, in its bargaining and all other aspects of its relationship with SUNY and the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations and SUNY leadership.
The RSD assigned to UUP and manages the UUP Field Services Department. This position reports to the NYSUT Director of Field and Affiliate Services.
Responsibilities
- Supervision and administration of labor relations specialists located in regional offices statewide.
- Assist, advise, evaluate and supervise LRSs with respect to contract administration, discipline matters, and proceedings at PERB.
- Oversee the budget for the statewide NYSUT program for UUP.
- Interact with AFT, NEA, and other organizations as required by UUP and NYSUT.
- Work with UUP leadership in developing and coordinating training activities for the chapters.
- Support and assist the UUP negotiations team.
- Liaison to SUNY management and the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations (GOER).
- Coordinate NYSUT activities with UUP leadership.
- Assist UUP standing and ad-hoc committees as required.
- Travel statewide to NYSUT and UUP events is expected.
- Attendance at meetings on evening and weekends in the regional routinely expected.
- Work with NYSUT Field and Affiliate Services Department in coordination of activities.
Background and Experience
- Advance degree preferred.
- Extensive experience with higher education issues.
- Extensive understanding of public sector higher education collective bargaining.
- Experience with leading a team of staff that are remotely located.
- Superior problem-solving skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills is mandatory.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and adhere to deadlines, often simultaneously is essential.
- Experience in contract administration – including knowledge of the NYS Taylor Law.
- Ability to understand complex state budget, campus budgets, regulatory documents, and applicable laws.
- Knowledge of the American Labor movement and its objectives.
- Strong familiarity with modern technology including video/online meetings and webinars, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation development, web design, database management and social media is strongly preferred. Regular use of fundamentals of the foregoing is essential and required.
- Experience in dealing with State government and hospital setting a plus.
Salary and benefits
To be determined by experience and NYSUT salary benefit structure for managerial employees.
Interested applicants should submit resume and cover letter to: hr@nysut.org
EOE
Studies show that women and members of some minority groups are more likely to underestimate their qualifications for a position. Therefore, if you are interested in this job, we encourage you to apply even if you are unsure of how your skills and experiences align with the job responsibilities. NYSUT is committed to diversity in our workplace and welcome the opportunity to consider all candidates. Women, people of color, and LGBTQ people are encouraged to apply.
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